I'm making a MUD (multi user dungeon) engine. MUDs are the MMOs of yesteryear, massively multiplayer, but made entirely of text and ascii art.

Why make a MUD engine in 2025?? Idk man I just wanted to

My 3d retro world map will be populated with 2d sprites. I'm getting the normal vector for each triangle in the world to check if it's flat enough to place something on. Right now, it's just trees in flat grass areas. Eventually it'll be dungeons, towns, etc. #gamedev

More work on my retro procedural world generator. Added sandy beaches and better water. The shader for that could use more work to make it fit the retro vibe. Changed the orthographic camera to be at a 45 degree angle so you can see around mountains better.

Started working on another procedural generation project. The ortholinear camera and low-poly plane makes for such a cool aesthetic. #gamedev

Now you can explore the dungeon with your friends! I'm doing this through a pretty simple pub/sub system; every chunk in the dungeon is treated like a topic. This whole project is really just an excuse to learn, we'll see if I get around to adding any "game" to this game lol #gamedev

If there was one game in #UFO50 I would nominate for a full sequel, it would be Party House. It's a deck building game, though it took me a bit to figure that out lol

Is anyone out there developing a full project like this? #indiegames

Alright, I've zoomed everything up and made a "camera" to follow the player. Doing this in React instead of a proper game engine makes this sort of thing a bit more of a challenge.

Infinite dungeon generation with a teeny tiny player character. Might have to make this guy bigger. #gamedev

House :D #gamedev #godot #indiedev

UFO 50 games feel authentically retro, while still benefiting from 40 or so years of lessons on game design. I've only played a few and have a couple dozen hours already. It's the best indie game I've played since Balatro. #indiegames

Update on my online Rogue-Like:
My Go back-end is generating a dungeon layout and sending it to the front-end as JSON. Then, I'm rendering it with PixiJS! Very happy with the result so far. #gamedev #roguelike

Decided today I'd like to make an online multiplayer Rogue-Like. Back-end will be Go. Here's the beginnings of my dungeon generation! #roguelike #gamedev

#AdventOfCode day 4 wrecked me.

Ended up in nested loop land by the end of both parts, despite my best efforts. Definitely excited to see how others were able to get this done without them!

For #AdventOfCode day 3 I used a pretty simple regex in part 1.

In part 2 I added a few "preprocessing" steps:

1. Concat the lines into one
2. Split the line on "do()"
3. For each line, cut off every "don't()" and anything past it
4. Use the same regex to sum as before
5. Profit

Is anyone else doing #adventofcode?

I always want to do better than just brute forcing, but ended up doing that today to debug the recursive solution I came up with. Even the brute force solution finished in under a second, I might just get lazy for the next ones!

Hey everyone, I'm a software engineer with a blog (how cliche).

Lately I've been learning a lot about graphics programming and writing blog posts about the math involved. Here's the first:

jacksontheel.com/posts/rotati...